The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 108
Then right in front of him he saw a huge fish, its mouth wide open, ready to devour him.
Who acts: life, huge fish · What happens: see, devour · To what, where: huge fish, right front, life
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life, huge fish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 right | advmod |
| 2 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 front | amod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 front | case |
| 4 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 front | nmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fish | det |
| 10 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fish | amod |
| 11 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 mouth | punct |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fish | conj |
| 15 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 open | advmod |
| 16 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fish | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ready | punct |
| 18 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 open | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 devour | mark |
| 20 | devour | devour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 ready | xcomp |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 devour | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | life | a huge fish and front's mouth | right front of life | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | devour | to-infinitive | a huge fish and front's mouth not said here | life | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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